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    The Second Jungle Book
    The Second Jungle Book
    The Second Jungle Book
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    The Second Jungle Book

    By Rudyard Kipling

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    Rudyard Kipling's sequel to the fantastically popular Jungle Book sees the jungle boy Mowgli finding an ancient treasure, facing off against a pack of wild dogs, finding his long-lost mother, and discovering how the first tiger got his stripes. This book also contains three other stories, as well as many poems and songs about life in the jungle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Classics
    Release dateJun 22, 2012
    ISBN9781781669303
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.

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    • 3/5
      Not quite as entertaining as the first collection of stories. There's no doubt that the Mowgli stories are the best.
    • 4/5
      The book appears to be written for children, but this can be misleading. The story is so much more of than fiction. The author hints at this when he includes in this book lines like "money is the only thing that changes hands but never gets warmer"
    • 5/5
      I was completely captivated by these stories. This is a book I could not put down.
    • 3/5
      If you time it correctly, both Jungle Books can hit you perfectly at just the right age. I think that's how they were for me as a kid. The first is a great adventure story, and the second is a level up, sadder and about growing up and everything. I need to make two detours here, the first regarding why I needed to re-read it.About a year ago, this tree I loved was cut down. I'm kind of weird about plants, comes from growing up a loner with a well-wooded acre to play in. Anyway, I get in a fit about how humans deal with nature, especially around here, where just about anything grows—except that nasty East coast stuff that just looks sad and out of place and never fills the area it was meant to, but is planted all over anyway. Now, I can't remember my thought process of a year ago, but somehow I dredged up a memory of a book I'd last read at least a decade before and remembered enough to find the right passage. It's just been percolating since then (After London had a bit to do with it) and with my mobile and Project Gutenberg I can indulge in my early chapter books with ease.Second: this book (especially in conjunction with the first) reminds me heavily of how (the movie) Labyrinth is and should have been. At the end of the second book, Kaa, Baloo, Bagheera and the four all pretty much tell Mowgli what Hoggle tells Sarah—that they'll always be there, "should you need us". But the end is so much more satisfying than Labyrinth, because Mowgli stayed in the jungle and became part of the jungle before "growing up" and "being a man", etc. How many of you were totally pissed that Sarah didn't stay with Jared? Most folks I know were. Imagine if she'd stayed there for a few years, raising her brother and finding herself (or whatever) and being the Goblin Queen, before returning to her parents and the human world. Mowgli, in talking with Akela a couple of years before the end of the book has this conversation: “I will never go. I will hunt alone in the Jungle. I have said it.” “After the summer come the Rains, and after the Rains comes the spring. Go back before thou art driven.” “Who will drive me?” “Mowgli will drive Mowgli. Go back to thy people. Go to Man.” “When Mowgli drives Mowgli I will go,” Mowgli answered. What if Sarah had waited until "Sarah drove Sarah"? Instead, (as Wikipedia gives us) "she must overcome [Jared] (and therefore this emotion) in order to fufil her quest."I don't know. Anyway, after that sweet and easy Kipling, I felt like going back to the Russians.
    • 5/5
      A rollicking read of three schoolboys in a small Victorian era public school on the Cornish coast of Britain. Follows on from Kipling's 'Many Inventions' and probably connects many of the characters with other Kipling tales. Most of the boys at the public school are army or navy children born, as Kipling describes, in barracks and on board ship and so, it is implied they have an inbuilt knowledge for the morals and ethics of the military and treatment of their fellow man. Each story is an illustration of 'fairness' as determined by Stalky and his two cohorts, Beetle and M'Turk.
    • 3/5
      The casual brutality of the late nineteenth century really comes through in this novel. But since the young people of the school in the book were all being trained up to be cannon-fodder, perhaps that was an appropriate way of rearing boys. Women don't feature in the story at all, except as a means of humiliating one of the characters and to be put in their place by Kipling as only having one role in life.But having said all that the story is entertaining, as Stalky and his friends use their brains to subvert the rules and frustrate their teachers, all in preparation for doing the same once they were in the army.
    • 4/5
      This book, besides being a rollicking good story, brings up a number of questions about education and the interactions among youths. By the lights of the early 21st century, Stalky is a bully, but then so is Robin Hood, who is obviously one of Stalky's role models. Is there a place for the righteous use of power in society? How do you know when you've moved off into unrighteous territory?It's also obvious that these boys know much better than their masters what they actually need to know to survive in adult life. Instead of doing their school work, they go off and learn the local dialect and mor?s, pick up bits of engineering, tactics and statecraft when and where they can, and learn the school material that is most useful to them as individuals. They're also comfortable being outsiders. It looks rather idyllic, but then we're seeing the success stories. What do you do with people who don't thrive in this kind of environment?Don't let my idle speculations get in the way of enjoying these stories the way Kipling meant you to.
    • 4/5
      This is at the same time a gloriously anarchic collection of schoolboy adventures and a political tract that argues that Britain's military and political strength relies on precisely the qualities of lateral thinking, resourcefulness and refusal to accept authority without good reason that are developed by spending ones teenage years engaged in guerrilla warfare against incompetent and self-important schoolmasters. Obviously, this argument has its weaknesses, but we can read and enjoy the book without taking it too seriously. In many ways, this is the template for the post-Victorian British school story, in which more attention is paid to fun and less to moralising. Stalky and his friends find plenty of opportunities in the course of the book to mock the Eric, or Little by little type of school story. One area in which other writers of school stories didn't follow Kipling's example is his utter lack of interest in team games. Cricket and rugby take place entirely off-stage and have no significant impact on the story. Later writers obviously heavily influenced by Stalky & co., from P.G. Wodehouse to J.K. Rowling, invariably take the easy way out and use The Big Match as the dramatic highpoint of their school stories. (Since I share Kipling's distaste for sports, this was one reason I quickly got bored with school stories and moved on to novels written for adults.)Something I didn't really notice when I read this as a child was how very specific the locations are. Although it is never named, there is doubt at all that this is Kipling's old school, the United Services College in Devon. Conventional school stories are set in old and distinguished institutions with long years of tradition; Kipling foregrounds the differences from such places. The "Old Coll" is of relatively recent foundation, it has no traditions, it exists primarily to make money for its shareholders, and it is designed specifically to get the sons of expat empire-builders into empire-building professions themselves - something it clearly does well. The Head is a man of taste with a good library, but does not appear to be especially scholarly. In moral and disciplinary matters he is a supreme pragmatist - Stalky and his friends take great care to cover themselves legally when they launch one of their escapades, but the Head just punishes them anyway if the result is that he has to listen to tedious complaints from masters. The escapades themselves are what you remember from the book, though. When Stalky gets even with someone, it isn't a matter of a bag of flour on top of a door: it is a subtle campaign of psychological warfare in which the victims are made to bring destruction upon themselves. You don't have to be 14 years old to appreciate these sories - most of them work just as well for adult readers.

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